JC introduces Cadre's ethos and leads a talk on enoughness as the idea that one already has worth and value. He frames enoughness as a calibration tool, urging smaller steps and accepting stumbles when starting something new.
JC: Hey, I'm glad I'm here. I know what I know and I care about you. Those 17 words are the way that every single Cadre today kicks off. JC: Cadre is a space that helps you feel better by showing you that there's many ways to be.
Bob Greene: Enoughness is the idea that you currently have something that has worth and value. He says we never get to the space where we think we are good enough. Greene: If you're starting something new, embrace the stumble.
Hey, good morning, Cadre. How are we doing today? I hope that you are well, whether it's sunny and warm or cold and chilly and cloudy, whether you got a day of rest ahead or a day full of activity, rest that makes you nervous or activity that fills your cup. It's a really long, roundabout way of saying, I hope that whatever is on your path, that you realize that you have what you need. And even more so that if you aren't certain that you have what you need, that you enter the day knowing that there are ways to strategize and equip yourself with what you need in the moment to do the things that you can do.
My name's JC if you never shared time and space together before, thanks for the opportunity to spend some time with you. Chris Fortman, Matt Tappy. Nice to see both y' all up and moving around on this Saturday. Hey, I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know what I know and I care about you. SM Zobs. Oh my gosh. That's one of my new favorite screen names. I've never seen you on a live before, I don't think. Thanks for spending some time this morning. As I just said, I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here.
I know what I know and I care about you. Those 17 words are the way that every single Cadre today kicks off. And I think that's if we were going to formulize what happens in the Cadre sphere, it's that there is an appreciation for the fact that we spend time together. The people who share work from what they know, not because they're experts, not because they figured it out. It's the reason why we're contributors and not creators. Right? We risk to say, I'm going to add something to the conversation because as we say, Cadre is a space that helps you feel better by showing you that there's many ways to be.
Well, we're not going to give you the right answer because headline there isn't one. You are unique. You are specific. You are journeying. You are doing the best you can do in the moment that you're in. And even when you're not, you are. So anytime you hear I'm glad I'm here, I'm glad you're here. I know what I know and I care about you. That's on purpose. That's how we do what we do here. All right, well, on Saturday mornings, I kick things off with a Talk on enoughness. Enoughness is this idea that you currently have something that has worth and value, that can move you towards wherever you want to be moved.
Right? So often we live in a world that says, I am here and I need to be here in order to be good enough to accomplish something. It's not true. And if we live that life, we know how exhausting it is because that line just keeps moving further and further forward. We never get to the space where we think we are good enough. Enoughness says you are already good enough to do something and if you go, no, I'm not, because I want to fly to the moon, the formula is this the thing you think that you're supposed to do is something you can't do.
Set the aperture smaller. Enoughness is a calibration tool. Let me tell you this. I sat down with a new friend, a person I don't know yet. That's what I like to call strangers on Thursday morning. This gentleman has been very successful in the digital marketing space for the last 25 years. This person has worked for companies like Target and Medica in literally bringing them into the age of using digital tools to market their brands. And after 25 years in the big business, has decided, like many people do, to go out on their own.
They acquired an existing digital marketing firm, that of a gentleman who's going out of business about six months ago. So even though this person just went out on their own, they had some existing business to keep supporting and moving forward. But I asked them this question. I was like, okay, so you're six months in to doing your own thing. And I asked this question, I love asking vague questions to see what the assumption is as to what the answer should be. And I asked this question, so have you had any success yet?
That question can be triggering, right? You know, that question could be like, Yeah, I have 70 million new clients and I made 10 billion, trillion dollars and everybody knows me and I'm living on the moon, right? We could think that that's what we're supposed to be saying is enough. And this gentleman said, yeah, you know what? I am successful so far. There's a lot of really great seeds planted, and I'm starting to see some buds, some second conversations. And he said, and we have one client that has been manifested in this last six months of work, and they're this size.
He could have said, they're not that big. He said, it's this kind of work, which is counter to the work that he's kind of specifying as his market. But, he pointed out, I'm seeing the impact of the things that initially was creating silence and now are creating whispers. Another example, I'm the artistic director of Minnesota's Senior Rock Ensemble. It's a nonprofit called Alive and Kickin that's using rock music to reclaim voices and to break down barriers of 60 to 90 year olds who are kind of told to retire and to be quiet.
So think of. Think of your grandma, your grandpa singing, you know, Led Zeppelin on stage and making you go, wow, that is countercultural. Well, I'll tell you, this group, we're getting ready for a big show in June, and they don't like not having everything together on day one. I always say this. First you stumble, then you crawl, then you walk, then you run, then you fly. I sat down with a band for this concert, and they are the most professional of professional musicians. Like, they played with the big acts, they played for the big shows, they've been on the Broadway, they've played the big houses.
And our first rehearsal, guess what they did. They stumbled. And then they crawled, and then they walked. They progressed pretty quickly, but they all stumbled. The gentleman that I met this week, a new business. He was able to go, here's my success. Alive and kickin. They're able to over time because they got a squeaky wheel director like me saying, yeah, guess what? Things shouldn't be good yet. Good. And then they start getting it. And this band of professional musicians, they stumbled before they crawled.
Enoughness invites us to remember, whether we want to or not, that the journey is not. Ah. And everything's great. And now I found the magical thing that is just easy. What is easy is knowing that we stumble, then we crawl, then we walk, then we run, then we fly. So no matter where you are, no matter what's going on today, everybody, I hope today. If you're starting something new, Good morning, sunshine. Jewels. If you're starting something new, I hope you embrace the stumble. Now, notice I'm not gonna say show up and suck.
I don't like using negative languages, if that's what it should be. It's like. No. Stumbling is beautiful, especially if you've never done it before. Give yourself the opportunity to fight the good fight, to say, this is where I am. This is what I'm capable of. And all of a sudden, that space between you and the idea of what you think makes you worth something starts to disappear. It may creep back from time to time, but continue to calibrate your enoughness, y' all. I will see you tomorrow morning for a little bit of thin space.
And every single day after that. Have a great Saturday, and I'll see you soon. Bye.
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